A Chinese journalist, Jiang Weiping spent nearly six years in prison after a court convicted him of “revealing state secrets”. Jiang had written articles for the Hong Kong-based magazine Qianshao (“Frontline”) exposing high-level government corruption in north-eastern China. Following sustained pressure from international free expression groups, he was released in January 2006, 11 months before his sentence was due to expire. He currently works as a calligrapher in the city of Dalian.